Volume III Part 26 (2/2)
[Footnote 124: In a very full account of the British isles published at Nuremberg in 1690 Kerry is described as ”an vielen Orten unwegsam und voller Wilder and Geburge.” Wolves still infested Ireland. ”Kein schadlich Thier ist da, ausserhalb Wolff and Fuchse.” So late as the year 1710 money was levied on presentments of the Grand Jury of Kerry for the destruction of wolves in that county. See Smith's Ancient and Modern State of the County of Kerry, 1756. I do not know that I have ever met with a better book of the kind and of the size. In a poem published as late as 1719, and ent.i.tled Macdermot, or the Irish Fortune Hunter, in six cantos, wolfhunting and wolfspearing are represented as common sports in Munster. In William's reign Ireland was sometimes called by the nickname of Wolfland. Thus in a poem on the battle of La Vogue, called Advice to a Painter, the terror of the Irish army is thus described
”A chilling damp And Wolfland howl runs thro' the rising camp.”]
[Footnote 125: Smith's Ancient and Modern State of Kerry.]
[Footnote 126: Exact Relation of the Persecutions, Robberies, and Losses, sustained by the Protestants of Killmare in Ireland, 1689; Smith's Ancient and Modern State of Kerry, 1756.]
[Footnote 127: Ireland's Lamentation, licensed May 18. 1689.]
[Footnote 128: A True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling men, by Andrew Hamilton, Rector of Kilskerrie, and one of the Prebends of the Diocese of Clogher, an Eyewitness thereof and Actor therein, licensed Jan. 15. 1689/90; A Further Impartial Account of the Actions of the Inniskilling men, by Captain William Mac Cormick, one of the first that took up Arms, 1691.]
[Footnote 129: Hamilton's True Relation; Mac Cormick's Further Impartial Account.]
[Footnote 130: Concise View of the Irish Society, 1822; Mr. Heath's interesting Account of the Wors.h.i.+pful Company of Grocers, Appendix 17.]
[Footnote 131: The Interest of England in the preservation of Ireland, licensed July 17. 1689.]
[Footnote 132: These things I observed or learned on the spot.]
[Footnote 133: The best account that I have seen of what pa.s.sed at Londonderry during the war which began in 1641 is in Dr. Reid's History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.]
[Footnote 134: The Interest of England in the Preservation of Ireland; 1689.]
[Footnote 135: My authority for this unfavourable account of the corporation is an epic poem ent.i.tled the Londeriad. This extraordinary work must have been written very soon after the events to which it relates; for it is dedicated to Robert Rochfort, Speaker of the House of Commons; and Rochfort was Speaker from 1695 to 1699. The poet had no invention; he had evidently a minute knowledge of the city which he celebrated; and his doggerel is consequently not without historical value. He says
”For burgesses and freemen they had chose Broguemakers, butchers, raps, and such as those In all the corporation not a man Of British parents, except Buchanan.”
This Buchanan is afterwards described as
”A knave all o'er For he had learned to tell his beads before.”]
[Footnote 136: See a sermon preached by him at Dublin on Jan. 31. 1669.
The text is ”Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake.”]
[Footnote 137: Walker's Account of the Siege of Derry, 1689; Mackenzie's Narrative of the Siege of Londonderry, 1689; An Apology for the failures charged on the Reverend Mr. Walker's Account of the late Siege of Derry, 1689; A Light to the Blind. This last work, a ma.n.u.script in the possession of Lord Fingal, is the work of a zealous Roman Catholic and a mortal enemy of England. Large extracts from it are among the Mackintosh MSS. The date in the t.i.tlepage is 1711.]
[Footnote 138: As to Mountjoy's character and position, see Clarendon's letters from Ireland, particularly that to Lord Dartmouth of Feb. 8., and that to Evelyn of Feb. 14 1685/6. ”Bon officier, et homme d'esprit,”
says Avaux.]
[Footnote 139: Walker's Account; Light to the Blind.]
[Footnote 140: Mac Cormick's Further Impartial Account.]
[Footnote 141: Burnet, i. 807; and the notes by Swift and Dartmouth.
Tutchin, in the Observator, repeats this idle calumny.]
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